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RE: Curious fileutils/coreutils behaviour. May 14 2004 06:19PM
Michael Wojcik (Michael Wojcik microfocus com) (1 replies)

Re: Curious fileutils/coreutils behaviour. May 14 2004 06:49PM
David Malone (dwmalone cnri dit ie) (2 replies)

Re: Curious fileutils/coreutils behaviour. May 15 2004 07:58AM
Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha (strange nsk no-ip org) (1 replies)

On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 07:49:07PM +0100, David Malone wrote:
> > (*)Contrary to the FAQ entry you cited, it is sometimes useful to change the
> > ownership of a symlink. Since the owner of a symlink can be detected by a
> > program, there can exist programs which depend on it.
>
> Yes, indeed. As another example, Apache has an option to only follow
> symlinks if they belong to the right person.

If the target belongs to the right person, not the symlink itself.

Regards,
Luciano Rocha

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Re: Curious fileutils/coreutils behaviour. May 15 2004 06:52PM
Martin (broadcast mail ptraced net)

Re: Curious fileutils/coreutils behaviour. May 15 2004 06:39AM
Michael Shigorin (mike osdn org ua)